Việt Nam News

Việt Nam Social Insurance is among the State-owned agencies that utilise technology most effectively in data management, Minister and Chairman of the Office of the Government Mai Tiến Dũng said yesterday.

Construction on a second facility for the Blood Transfusion Hematology Hospital started yesterday (Oct 17) in HCM City’s Bình Chánh Distrist.

Toyota Motors Việt Nam (TMV) yesterday granted scholarships worth VNĐ690 million to 115 excellent students from 16 universities nationwide.

A primary school built using funds from Azerbaijan’s Heydar Aliyev Foundation was inaugurated in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang Province’s Giáp Trung Commune on Wednesday.

Rescue ship SAR 413, belonging to Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No 3, took Joe Vanier, an ill 53-year-old Canadian man, to the mainland in the southern province of Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu at 7:45 am on Thursday.

Việt Nam had set up its fully integrated forestry information database, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said at a conference in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Police in the northern mountainous province of Bắc Kạn arrested four people for trafficking 198 cakes of heroin, weighs nearly 70 kilos, in Tú Trĩ Commune on Wednesday.

Individuals and organisations across the country have donated a total of nearly VNĐ3 trillion (US$129 million) to the Fund for the Poor and the Social Security Programme for the year.

One person was killed and 13 were injured in a shipping accident on Wednesday in the northern province of Quảng Ngãi.

Farmers and workers in the informal sector are often reluctant to buy voluntary social insurance because they do not understand its benefits and lack knowledge about the programme, according to the Viet Nam Social Security agency, according to the Việt Nam Social Security agency.

Việt Nam News reporter Nguyễn Hằng interviews Danish Ambassador Kim Højlund Christensen about the first-ever P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 – global summit in Copenhagen in October 19-20 with the attendance of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, as well as the role of Việt Nam in the initiative as one of the founding member countries.

The Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre has sustainably developed both aquaculture and offshore fishing in the last 10 years under a national marine strategy.

The HCM City People’s Economic Court on Wednesday began hearing the suit filed by taxi operator Vinasun against ride-hailing service Grab, accusing it of unfair business practices and demanding compensation of the VNĐ42 billion worth of losses it has suffered.

Six million people in Việt Nam managed to climb up the poverty ladder according to statistics released on Wednesday.

Farmers in Cà Mau Province breeding giant river prawns in their rice fields are harvesting what promises to be a bumper crop and are getting high prices for the crustacean since it is not the regular prawn season. 

HCM City authorities will redesign a proposal for a bus rapid transit (BRT) route after the Department of Transport said the plan was not feasible.

The emergence of new kinds of illicit drugs and increasingly complicated drug-related crimes have posed greater challenges for the world, including ASEAN, and necessitate renewed efforts from governments in the fight against drug abuse.

Child patients will be given priority in kidney transplants when there is a brain-dead or non-heart-beating donor under a new agreement on organ transplantation between three major hospitals in HCM City.